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These poems approach dementia as something that happens to speech and to the bonds between people, and ask where love and meaning go once memory gives way. A daughter sees her mother slip away though her body is still there; the poems give voice both to the daughter's sorrow and anger and to the mother's disorientation as she loses hold of herself. Drawing on Auguste D., the first person Alois Alzheimer described, and on Shakespeare's King Lear, the book tries to make the disease legible and even something that can be shared, picturing the world as a closed ward or a fenced garden, in a chorus of voices that cannot quite sing. What does a mother's love mean if she no longer recognises her child?

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

149 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Wahlström & Widstrand

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789146232766 (original)